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Any Screenshots of the OTHER Win9x BSOD?

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First post, by Gemini000

Posted on 2015-08-24, 18:24

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I don't think there's a single person here who isn't familiar with the Win9x Blue Screen of Death.

However, a long while back when doing some reformatting and reinstalling of things, I encountered a different BSOD from Windows 98 SE. It still had a blue background and white (or grey, forget which) text, but instead of a whole page worth with an fg/bg inverted program/driver name, centred in the middle of the screen, it simply had only a couple short lines of text, non-centred, near the bottom.

I'm curious if anyone else has seen this before or if anyone has any screen captures of this. I'm pretty sure the only way to generate this screen is to have a critical failure before the kernel can be fully loaded, as I believe when I got this error the problem file which couldn't be loaded at all was KERNEL32.DLL or something like that.

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Reply 1 of 5, by Snayperskaya

Posted on 2015-08-27, 01:31

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Interesting. Never saw this one, actually, but I've somehow managed to produce a Red Screen of Death once while trying to run a 16-bit Windows app on XP or 7. Can't remember the circumstances, though. 🙁

Reply 2 of 5, by Jorpho

Posted on 2015-08-27, 02:29

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It makes me think of aclock, which was posted about a couple of times on os2museum.com ; there's even an NT kernel mode device driver version that outputs to the Windows NT BSOD.
http://www.os2museum.com/wp/windows-nt-bsod-aclock-port/

Maybe the thing you saw was actually a unique feature of whatever drivers you were using.

Reply 3 of 5, by Gemini000

Posted on 2015-08-27, 15:22

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Jorpho wrote:
Maybe the thing you saw was actually a unique feature of whatever drivers you were using.

Maybe... but given that it would come up BEFORE Windows was loaded completely, and the fact that it was pointing out Windows-critical files, I'm more inclined to believe it was a Windows thing, especially since it was doing this before I installed any third-party drivers. :o

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Reply 4 of 5, by DosFreak

Posted on 2015-08-27, 15:33

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Reply 5 of 5, by calvin

Posted on 2015-08-28, 11:59

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Maybe ScanDisk checking the disk for errors?

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